United States Sixth Circuit

Title VII cases in which plaintiffs seek individual compensatory damages are not appropriately brought as class actions under Rule 23(b)(2) because such individual claims for money damages will always predominate over requested injunctive or declaratory relief.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/24/2006
• Published 01/24/2006

Judges

• Before:  KEITH and BATCHELDER, Circuit Judges;  OBERDORFER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Stephen P. Carney, Office of the Attorney General of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellant.  Nicholas E. Kennedy, Kennedy, Reeve & Knoll, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Stephen P. Carney, Douglas R. Cole, Office of the Attorney General of Ohio, Columbus, Ohio, Jack W. Decker, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellant.  Nicholas E. Kennedy, Kennedy, Reeve & Knoll, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellees.  Ann E. Reesman, McGuiness, Norris & Williams, Washington, D.C., for Amici Curiae.